I've been putting off reviewing for a long time now. I finally decided, one boring afternoon, to get my ass in gear and get some of the games I had the most opinions on out of the way. Seeing as how I've recently hit Level 20 here on GameSpot, I figured this would be as good a time as any to post them and celebrate. Before you can ask, no, I didn't review twenty games. I'm only human.
That said, I was able to review four adventure games I really enjoyed playing. My reviews of The Longest Journey, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, Syberia, and Syberia II are available via the links I just provided. If you're interested, go ahead and take a look. Feel free to leave any comments you might have on them here in this journal entry.
In other news, this past summer was a great chance for me to catch up on some games I either hadn't played yet or hadn't finished yet. A chance I blew terribly, heh, deciding to get in as many hours at work as possible instead. Ah well, c'est la vie. I also decided against getting a Nintendo Wii for the moment. Partially for financial reasons and partially because I just don't have the time anymore to game like I used to. My PC gives me more than enough gaming opportunities as it is for the moment so unless my family decides that they're all interested in getting a Wii and are willing to chip in evenly for one, its off my list for the foreseeable future.
I've been looking at this upcoming Fall's game line-up and I realized that I'll need all those work hours just to have some money left over if I get all the ones that have caught my eye! I've already bought BioShock and even though my computer can only play it on its lowest settings, I can see why it had all the hype. There are a lot of other great titles coming out, but rather than buy them right off the bat, I have another idea.
The new college semester is coming up in a few days, which means I'll have maybe a few hours per week - if I'm lucky - to get any gaming in. Therefore, what I'm going to try to do is devote those hours to playing/finishing all the games on my Now Playing list before I even think about getting a new one. I have a feeling this will be a hard goal to live up to, but I suppose all the worthwhile ones are. I figure, why should I buy a new game when there are so many that I already have which I never finished?
Well, that's the plan anyway. We'll see how it turns out in practice.
Cheers